OBITUARY

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3210, 22 September 1934, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR ALEX. McFARLANE The death occurred in the Auckland Hospital yesterday of Mr Thomas Alexander McFariane, of Cambridge, m at the age of 41 - A , The late: Mr McFariane suffered an / injury y to his, head, several years, ago which..necessitated/,much attention by doctor^butjabpiifeeight months ago he went totally^blind.. % ,He was operated on, in : Auckland, yesterday, morning but collapsed, ami d«?d fc /• 3f ;, . ■.;■: ■ ,* v v The was the third son , ofc. ijand the late Mr r McFariane, .one.,, of the oldest farjn;ng,: families -in . \th,9 v district. _He Was educated, : at the.. Newstcad School and later took ,up farming in the Cambridge district., , About 18 years. ago..he married Miss Molly Hill, a daughter of Mr N: Hill, of Cambridge. He, is survived by his wife and > five children, also three ' brothers^. James.' and Andrew (Cambridge), and,; Fred , McFariane (Tauranga), and, twordaughters, Mrs McLean and Mrs Pennell, of Matamata The funeral will (leave his mother's residence,, Bpycc ; Str.e.et> at 1.40 p.m. tomorrow for the Mpthodist Church and • thence to the Cambridge cemetery. ,